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    We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan

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    athenae ftw

    No one has (or could) say it better:

    Somebody, somewhere, will get something I didn’t approve of. Somebody who’s overweight, maybe, or smokes, or drinks too much, or took drugs once or a thousand times. Somebody who has been ignoring a nagging illness, somebody who should have eaten more vegetables, somebody who lives near a power plant, somebody who had a family history of something and [...]



    Livin’ Large: Everything’s bigger in America. You could look it up…

    This is an article from the September issue of Smithsonian Magazine, from their “Last Page” feature. For some reason, this article is not available online, so I am transcribing it here, because I think it is that interesting…

    Enjoy!

    ;D

    Livin’ Large

    Everything’s bigger in America. You could look it up.

    The total U.S. Food Supply provides 500 more calories per day per person than it did in [...]



    my first and last post on britney spears – i promise

    I was appalled to see this staring at me in the paper across my peanut butter sandwich this morning:

    An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards today – but for all the wrong reasons.

    She walked through her dance moves with [...]